#war for spanish succession

[stumbling-towards-the-light]

Historically speaking, families that practiced incest, at least to a larger degree than other cultures, also gave women more rights. The reason the Habsburgs married niece-to-uncle all the time was because their inheritance customs dictated that property and titles could pass through the eldest daughter's line to her eldest son. So, in order to keep their empire in the hands of the Habsburgs instead of the French or the English, they married their daughters to Habsburg cousins. The one time this rule was not followed, it sparked a civil war where the Habsburgs were ousted from the Spanish throne because the Spanish king had not married his Habsburg daughter to another Habsburg. Ditto for the Egyptian dynasties where women generally had a larger say in political/cultural/domestic life than their European counterparts. Cleopatra was not the only female Pharoah to kick ass. All of this to say, the Valyrian Freehold and the Targaryens, by extension, most likely gave their women some stake in property rights and/or inheritance policies. Why else would it be traditional for Aegon to marry his oldest sister if custom dictated he only had to marry one? Why else would it even be a debate for Laenor to inherit the Iron Throne through his mother?

[bantarleton]

The uniform of a senior French general, captured at the battle of Blenheim in 1704 and now forming part of the exhibition at the National Army Museum.

[useless-catalanfacts]

[rnsulentic]

Rebasing fun. Austrian regiment Alt-Starhemberg. 15mm Dixon miniatures painted in the 1990s getting a new purpose.

[skitskatdacat63]

I finally asked my prof who his fav Habsburg is and he was SO delighted 😭 I told him I've been researching and he was like "on your own???" 🤭🤭

[ellavei]

Spain: Someone please pour me more wine.

Servant: Your wedding with Señor Francia starts in the next hour, my Lord...

Spain: More reasons to drink more wine.

[oldfritz]

these kids not mentioning austria in their answers on the causes for the war of spanish succession....bud that's like 1/2 the reason the war began

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

Leopold I and Eugene of Savoy walked so modern Nerd x Jock pairings could ru- *a hoard of historians rightfully and violently grab me and whisk me off their conference podium to the back where there are sickening gunshots and I am never heard of ever again*

((turn on audio you will regret))

[t5t]

no offence to my succession mutuals but personally i can't wait for it to be over

[bantarleton]

French assault columns storming the Dutch breastworks at the battle of Denain, 24 July 1712, by Giuseppe Rava. Love seeing historical artwork that shows a “big picture,” reminds me of the endless stick-men battle scenes I’d doodle as a kid (albeit this looks much better!).

[useless-catalanfacts]

El Canyeret neighbourhood in the city of Lleida (capital city of Ponent, Catalonia) devastated after being bombed by Mussolini’s Italian fascist aviation, who was helping Franco and his fascist side in the Spanish Civil War.

Photo source: Arxiu Comarcal del Segrià.

Lleida was bombed many times by the fascist air-force in the Spanish Civil War, most heavily during the days known as “the Battle of Lleida”, between March 27th and April 3rd 1938, which ended in a victory of the fascist side. Lleida was not a big city nor very strategically important -the fascists’ aim was not factories or weapons, but civilians. Lleida’s importance was as a symbol: the rest of Catalonia still resisted as an antifascist stronghold, thanks to the militia organizations that many civilians had joined; but Lleida, as Catalonia’s Westernmost city (and thus the one closest to Spain where Franco’s army already controlled most territory), was the first city in Catalonia that was occupied by the fascist troops. (Remember that one of the main pillars of Spanish fascism are Catalanophobia and Spanish supremacy, and hatred of leftists and atheists, who were also identified with Catalonia because workers’ leftist movements were very strong here.)

The alliance between the Italian aviation, Franco’s Spanish troops and Moroccan troops occupied Lleida for the fascists, and most of the city’s population was either killed or fled as refugees to other parts of Catalonia still under control of the Republic. Out of the 38,000 inhabitants that the city had before the Battle of Lleida, less than 2,000 were left in the city on the day that the fascists considered they had bombed it enough and occupied it by land.

As soon as the fascists took control of the city, they went to erase the official registres of the victims of war, trying to erase responsibility for their massacre. They went to the Civil Registre to take the books of deaths, where the names and dates of the people who died in the city showed how many had been killed by the fascist bombs. The fascists always tried to obfuscate their crimes, they never had any honour even to face their own deeds.

By the way, the neighbourhood shown in the photo (El Canyeret) was home to the descendants of the families that Spanish troops had already destroyed 200 years ago. When Castilla (Spain) first occupied Catalonia, in the year 1714 as the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, the Spanish King Philip V militarized Catalonia, destroying whole neighbourhoods and even whole cities. In the main important cities, including Lleida, the Spanish government destroyed neighbourhoods and built military citadels on its place, that had the cannons always pointing at the population. In Lleida, people were expelled from the slopes of the Seu Vella hill, and the newly-homeless families built shanty towns further down. This was the creation of El Canyeret.

[master-of-the-opera-house]

also, what songs remind you of franz? a song that reminds me of sophie is "die first" by nessa barrett.

Oh..... oh........... Yeah you're right. Interestingly I also thought of 'Dyin Aint So Bad' for Sophie theatre kid moment which has a similar theme, and for Franzi I've already given a song here !! But as mentioned I have a whole playlist and another song that reminds me of him is My Tears Ricochet!

And speaking of Taylor Swift ((and your other ask)) I do indeed have The Great War on said playlist as well! I think it's just as much Franzi and Sopherl too.

[valkyries-things]

CHRISTIAN DAVIES // SOLDIER

“She was an Irishwoman who joined the British Army in 1693 disguised as a man. She fought with the infantry in Flanders during the Nine Years War until 1697, then with the 4th Dragoons, later the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons and finally with the Scots Greys in the War of the Spanish Succession from 1701 to 1706. The author Daniel Defoe met her in old age when she was a Chelsea Pensioner and turned her story into a book entitled The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies.”

[intricatecaprice]

When Charles II of Spain died, leaving no children, one of the potential heirs was Philip V, of the House of Bourbon.

This is PhilIp V in 1700. What a baby face!

But Philip was anything but a baby. When Charles died, he didn't relax. He didn’t announce his mourning period, as might have been customary. He didn’t even advertise the funeral.

Which meant Philip had the potential to become the King of Spain AND France.

He went straight into proclaiming himself the new King.

Why?

Because he knew a war was coming.

Because Philip V was also 3rd in line to France’s throne.

So what did Philip do to convince his new subjects to accept him...?

And no one wanted that - thus began the War of the Spanish Succession.

Parties.

He decreed parties.

He gave them celebration after celebration, festival after festival. All through the war. Bourbon births, Bourbon marriages, Bourbon deaths, he created more and more dates in the year to be remembered and honoured - but this was just propaganda.

Keep the people happy, keep them having 'fun', and get them invested in Keeping Up with the Bourbons.

[skitskatdacat63]

Sorry but I was looking thru asks and I saw these again and they make me laugh every time I look back at them, thank you cofi and c 😭😭😭

I ended up calling it Boy King bcs that's really just how everyone knew it already, but these are all soooo gold

Spanish Dream AU has such great historical context though btw:

I guess sometimes when I tag drawings, I'm like "ah I'm kinda ignoring Nano :<" but then I realize that's the whole point! Yeah he's important and so are others in the au, but Seb is always the most important at the end of the day 🤭🤭